Aberzombie1892 said:
Doc Holliday said:
Porteroso said:
Why is this thread here?
I think his protests were fine, protesting is the most American thing ever. Kneeling is nothing compared to throwing tea in the ocean.
People turned a small protest into a huge thing, which I'd only to his advantage. Stop making threads about him if you want to forget him.
It's not the kneeling.
It's the message he pushes that America is an overly hateful and racist country.
It's the pig cop socks, the support of commies, black panthers, the notion that white cops have a racism problem that's out of control. That he's being blacklisted by the NFL because of his race...despite the massive amount of diversity in the NFL.
All the misinformation he pushes divides us: his message creates an enemy and oppressor where no such thing exists.
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1. How much hate and racism is not "overly"?
It's a reality that's always going to exist unfortunately. But to frame it as a massive widespread issue, when it's not, is a problem. A problem that creates the very division and racism it claims to be up against because we've defined an oppressor and a victim by race instead of judging every person at the individual level. The idiots on both sides of the equation turn against each other.
Some of the problems Kapernick helped create is hostility toward law enforcement. If you're convinced cops are suspect racists, you might be hostile towards them because of fear or you've accepted they're an oppressor simply because of the system (systemic). You might think your white manager is only holding their position because of their race instead of their abilities. And conversely, a white guy might now think their black boss only got their job because of social justice instead of their abilities.
These are some of the stupid narratives coming out of "woke" culture right now. Very very bad things.
Nothing good comes out of it.
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2. At the macro level, America's criminal justice system is not equitable across in terms of outcomes by race, and it's an institutional problem that spawns from various factors, including, but not limited to, racism, classism, and sexism.
It directly correlates with environmental behavior. Black Americans are some of our poorest, therefore they will have higher levels of crime because of a more common environment: it has nothing to do with race or racism.
The lack of equal criminal justice system outcomes stems not from racism, but things like fatherless homes for example. The clinical literature, statistics and studies show that Fatherless, poor, and broken homes create higher levels of crime. Black Americans are subject to this more than other races and it explains the higher crime rates.
And a common fallacy is that they're being targeted or arrested through profiling and racism more often. The crime stats show PROVEN crimes are much higher than other races/cultures... and that very same race has higher instances of poverty.
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3. He's not being blacklisted because of his race - he's being blacklisted because of the protests and because the inevitable outcome that would occur if such protests were able to continue.
I agree that plays a role. This subject pisses a lot of people off.
What I am asking is for people to grow up. The real solution isn't to convince others that racism lurks around every corner, rather it's to actually help these communities escape these environments: that can be done through education, cultural adjustments, technology and so on.
We need to stop framing the problem incorrectly.